Mobile App Architect
TA Digital India, India

Contributes towards Native and Hybrid Mobile App Development for both Android and iOS, by bringing in deep core technology expertise and relevant business knowledge to the team. Play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our mobile platforms.

• Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle; from concept development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support
• Be an Interface with a set of clients (client senior developers and architects) to create technology specifications from business requirements for one or more mobile apps within the project
• Should be hands-on and technical enough to review code, support developers and scrutinize technical deliverables
• Responsible to prepare the technical design of the components within the apps
• Proficient in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture
• Drives the performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring for an app
• Contributes to designing and implementing the build, release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the application
• Mentors the team (people working on the module and other project team members) on technology concepts and best practices for design, implementation and other processes

Requirements

• More than 8 years of relevant experience in either Android or iOS, and at least 3 years of relevant experience in the other
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent comprehension and articulation skills
• Strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with customers, executives, management and developers
• Responsible for creating highly scalable, flexible and resilient architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of best practices
• Has the ability to connect technology with measurable business values, and also has demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technical challenges
• Owns the end-to-end technical implementation through different stages of its lifecycle
• As a trusted customer advocate, should have the ability to help the customers understand and adapt to best practices and demonstrate tangible value additions or improved ROI
• In collaboration with the sales and pre-sales teams, should drive revenue growth across broad set of customers
• Should drive innovation in terms of publishing papers, blogs, creating POCs, propositions etc.
• Should mentor and guide junior members in the practice and create a conducive environment for others to grow technically
• Should ensure quality in hiring external candidates for technical roles
• Strong in software development process, test driven development
• Strong OO design skills/implementation of design patterns
• Strong experience with Build and Release, Systems Integration, Agile, Estimations/Planning
• Business Knowledge: Enterprise Services domain experiences would be a plus

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